The question is really: what does an $800 phone do that a $200 phone doesn't? Or even a $40 phone nowadays? I've really been asking people that for the past year or so, hoping there's some kind of killer app or use case I just haven't heard of yet, but these comments here pretty much confirm there isn't.
Its obvious they have some very high level decision making problems there. I doubt it is confined to the IT department. Hes right that organizations will make mistakes but they and aren't all deeply institutionalized mistakes... Those stick around worse than bad policies.
A continuum exists between "trolling" and "serious, thoughtful discussion". The provocative language of the post is clearly further to one side of the continuum. Besides, if there were any thought put into the post, it wouldn't have glaring inconsistencies like attributing the rise of Facebook and Google to regulations that weren't in place until 2 years ago. Whatever argument he might have been trying to make has been totally thrashed repeatedly in this thread.
These days, we have genuine trolls who use "freedom of thought/expression" in the manner that a terrorist uses a human shield. Some of them don't even know they're trolling. Some have just been reading other troll posts and web sites and think this is the thing to do. There has been a lot of funny business surrounding the net neutrality issue, beyond the usual Telecom lobbying. like the flood of automated comments against net neutrality on the FCC's web site and their refusal to investigate it. Come to think of it, there's been a lot of similar funny business around the FCC chairman himself, and the man who appointed him.
You won't know a deceptive actor by his name or face or UID, but you will know him by his actions.
Skype has been dead to me for years already. No working Linux client, and the windows version wasn't great either. Very few people I know use it now that there are a dozen other ways to do live video.
Maybe eliminating the fairness doctrine did increase freedom in some regard. It gave idiots like Limbaugh the freedom to establish a more cohesive, biased soapbox to stand on. But sustaining an informed, thinking, free society? Not so much.
12 years? Ike 9 years ago knocked out my power for weeks and I live over an hour from the coast. Widespread damage in coastal areas like Galveston. Large hotels collapsed, museums were flooded, etc. You mistake "we haven't had media hysteria about hurricanes" with "there haven't been hurricanes".
The alternative to the government regulating radio broadcasts, is them not regulating radio broadcasts. Since this is a tech site I'll assume you realize how much more difficult that would make the whole business of broadcast transmission. The summary here is total shit so I can't really determine if it was the station operators or the FCC that fucked up the licensing. To suggest that this outcome is an intrinsic effect of licensing radio broadcasters, or government regulation more broadly, shows either a lack of understanding of the issue, or a self-imposed ideological inflexibility.
It really is sad because extending the life of old or marginal hardware is one of the strong points of Linux in the first place. Intel was shipping 32-bit-only Atoms as late as 2010. I'm still using one with Debian on it... But even their next release will drop 32bit.
Ubuntu Server stopped offering 32 bit ISOs years ago. At least they did last I checked in 2015. They want to cite declining market share, but how are they polling that? Embedded systems and some types of servers aren't likely to be browsing the web, for example.
It's steep to someone who has never created a boot disk or partitioned a drive... So the majority of all computer users. And that's just the bar for admission, then you get to learn to actually use it.
I could really do without all that. Sitting on the couch all day asking a robot to bring me everything sounds rather dull and sedentary. (I realize a lot of slashdotters do this already, with Mom not a robot... But it's not for me.) I only hit the light switch maybe 2 or 3 times a day, and it takes about 5 seconds to walk across the room and do it. I doubt Alexa could do it faster, or get the circulation in my legs moving properly, like getting up every once in a while does. Maybe the self-flipping light switch is useful to someone with a house too big to walk through, but... It ain't me... It ain't me!
The thing is, they are already collecting everybody's everything.
Or they can get it with a quick note to Facebook. what they are doing now is just formalizing it somewhat. But make no mistake, this goes on secretly all the time. It is unconstitutional but it's not being challenged or it's existence even acknowledged. Anyone who talks about it ends up hiding in Moscow or an embassy.
The definition I'm using, which includes access to water, is absolutely enforceable. In fact, violence often happens specifically because that right is *not* being protected. People in power have simply made all kinds of other, irrelevant shit their priority. And here you are excusing them. It's pretty sad.
They failed to know their target market. It's aimed at privacy-conscious techies, but then they made the same mistakes Apple and the others do. They certainly don't have the brand power to compete with them at the status-symbol price point they set.
People who weren't able to see this have really have little understanding of either history or politics. No wonder educated voters tended to vote one way and uneducated the other. But even among supposedly educated people, plenty watch the news and take every dipshit on there at face value. They think they have an understanding of the issues, but there is no thought involved, they just soak everything up as presented. The type of tactics used here were so painfully basic. Textbook. Stir up racial tensions to size power... Nobody remembers the Nazis? We now have Nazis marching through the streets with torches, committing murder - and people want to talk about Godwin's Law. Pitiful.
They were pro-Trump in that they helped his campaign. Inflaming racial tensions also keeps Americans focused on problems at home while the Russians are out pulling all kind of stunts up to and including annexing territory from sovereign states. Electing trump was just a side effect. I get the feeling most of the Russian contacts with his campaign weren't even serious attempts to collude with him. They just wanted to leave a concrete trail of contacts that would make a further circus, paralyzing the us government that much longer.
Nobody has heard of Ukraine and they might just disappear from the map entirely before too long. Turn on the news today and you will hear about the president yelling about football on twitter. The operation was a total successk
There seems to be to an effort to decrease pay in the computer field. Degrees are being cheapened by the education system, and not just the for profit diploma mills. Companies often pay nothing for this leaving the student and sometimes the state to assume the risk. You end up with incompetent companies picking from a less competent pool of applicants trained to compete with Indians.
The share holders are investors who have volunteered to take a risk with their money. One of those risks is that they don't watch the business sufficiently and it gets ran incompetently then sued out of existence. I'm not sure it's perfectly just for the banks and lawyers to get the whole reward, but we can't bail out shareholders when their companies fail.
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The question is really: what does an $800 phone do that a $200 phone doesn't? Or even a $40 phone nowadays? I've really been asking people that for the past year or so, hoping there's some kind of killer app or use case I just haven't heard of yet, but these comments here pretty much confirm there isn't.
I like this definition better: Wealth consists not in having many possessions, but in having few wants.
It's not disposable anymore once they sign the contract. Then it's just disposed.
Its obvious they have some very high level decision making problems there. I doubt it is confined to the IT department. Hes right that organizations will make mistakes but they and aren't all deeply institutionalized mistakes... Those stick around worse than bad policies.
A continuum exists between "trolling" and "serious, thoughtful discussion". The provocative language of the post is clearly further to one side of the continuum. Besides, if there were any thought put into the post, it wouldn't have glaring inconsistencies like attributing the rise of Facebook and Google to regulations that weren't in place until 2 years ago. Whatever argument he might have been trying to make has been totally thrashed repeatedly in this thread.
These days, we have genuine trolls who use "freedom of thought/expression" in the manner that a terrorist uses a human shield. Some of them don't even know they're trolling. Some have just been reading other troll posts and web sites and think this is the thing to do. There has been a lot of funny business surrounding the net neutrality issue, beyond the usual Telecom lobbying. like the flood of automated comments against net neutrality on the FCC's web site and their refusal to investigate it. Come to think of it, there's been a lot of similar funny business around the FCC chairman himself, and the man who appointed him.
You won't know a deceptive actor by his name or face or UID, but you will know him by his actions.
Skype has been dead to me for years already. No working Linux client, and the windows version wasn't great either. Very few people I know use it now that there are a dozen other ways to do live video.
Maybe eliminating the fairness doctrine did increase freedom in some regard. It gave idiots like Limbaugh the freedom to establish a more cohesive, biased soapbox to stand on. But sustaining an informed, thinking, free society? Not so much.
12 years? Ike 9 years ago knocked out my power for weeks and I live over an hour from the coast. Widespread damage in coastal areas like Galveston. Large hotels collapsed, museums were flooded, etc. You mistake "we haven't had media hysteria about hurricanes" with "there haven't been hurricanes".
The alternative to the government regulating radio broadcasts, is them not regulating radio broadcasts. Since this is a tech site I'll assume you realize how much more difficult that would make the whole business of broadcast transmission. The summary here is total shit so I can't really determine if it was the station operators or the FCC that fucked up the licensing. To suggest that this outcome is an intrinsic effect of licensing radio broadcasters, or government regulation more broadly, shows either a lack of understanding of the issue, or a self-imposed ideological inflexibility.
It really is sad because extending the life of old or marginal hardware is one of the strong points of Linux in the first place. Intel was shipping 32-bit-only Atoms as late as 2010. I'm still using one with Debian on it... But even their next release will drop 32bit.
Ubuntu Server stopped offering 32 bit ISOs years ago. At least they did last I checked in 2015.
They want to cite declining market share, but how are they polling that? Embedded systems and some types of servers aren't likely to be browsing the web, for example.
This is just lazy, they don't even bother to copy paste into relevant threads anymore.
It's steep to someone who has never created a boot disk or partitioned a drive... So the majority of all computer users. And that's just the bar for admission, then you get to learn to actually use it.
I could really do without all that. Sitting on the couch all day asking a robot to bring me everything sounds rather dull and sedentary. (I realize a lot of slashdotters do this already, with Mom not a robot... But it's not for me.) I only hit the light switch maybe 2 or 3 times a day, and it takes about 5 seconds to walk across the room and do it. I doubt Alexa could do it faster, or get the circulation in my legs moving properly, like getting up every once in a while does. Maybe the self-flipping light switch is useful to someone with a house too big to walk through, but... It ain't me... It ain't me!
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Call me Mr Flintstone, I can make your bed rock
The thing is, they are already collecting everybody's everything. Or they can get it with a quick note to Facebook. what they are doing now is just formalizing it somewhat. But make no mistake, this goes on secretly all the time. It is unconstitutional but it's not being challenged or it's existence even acknowledged. Anyone who talks about it ends up hiding in Moscow or an embassy.
The definition I'm using, which includes access to water, is absolutely enforceable. In fact, violence often happens specifically because that right is *not* being protected. People in power have simply made all kinds of other, irrelevant shit their priority. And here you are excusing them. It's pretty sad.
They failed to know their target market. It's aimed at privacy-conscious techies, but then they made the same mistakes Apple and the others do. They certainly don't have the brand power to compete with them at the status-symbol price point they set.
What they would like is for their own citizens to use one they control, instead of Facebook.
People who weren't able to see this have really have little understanding of either history or politics. No wonder educated voters tended to vote one way and uneducated the other. But even among supposedly educated people, plenty watch the news and take every dipshit on there at face value. They think they have an understanding of the issues, but there is no thought involved, they just soak everything up as presented. The type of tactics used here were so painfully basic. Textbook. Stir up racial tensions to size power... Nobody remembers the Nazis? We now have Nazis marching through the streets with torches, committing murder - and people want to talk about Godwin's Law. Pitiful.
They were pro-Trump in that they helped his campaign. Inflaming racial tensions also keeps Americans focused on problems at home while the Russians are out pulling all kind of stunts up to and including annexing territory from sovereign states. Electing trump was just a side effect. I get the feeling most of the Russian contacts with his campaign weren't even serious attempts to collude with him. They just wanted to leave a concrete trail of contacts that would make a further circus, paralyzing the us government that much longer.
Nobody has heard of Ukraine and they might just disappear from the map entirely before too long. Turn on the news today and you will hear about the president yelling about football on twitter. The operation was a total successk
Willing but maybe not knowingly. They can't use that excuse anymore. But future attacks could be different in execution if not in substance.
There seems to be to an effort to decrease pay in the computer field. Degrees are being cheapened by the education system, and not just the for profit diploma mills. Companies often pay nothing for this leaving the student and sometimes the state to assume the risk. You end up with incompetent companies picking from a less competent pool of applicants trained to compete with Indians.
The share holders are investors who have volunteered to take a risk with their money. One of those risks is that they don't watch the business sufficiently and it gets ran incompetently then sued out of existence. I'm not sure it's perfectly just for the banks and lawyers to get the whole reward, but we can't bail out shareholders when their companies fail.